Pete Rose is a baseball legend. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of the game—a record that remains unbroken—and for decades captured the imagination of a nation. He was the American dream personified. Until 1989, when a sensational scandal brought him crashing down and forever changed the game.
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
In the late 1970s, an environmental crisis in a working-class neighborhood in western New York made headlines across the country, frightened parents everywhere, forced government officials to take unprecedented action, and ultimately changed US environmental policy forever. With Paradise Falls, Keith O’Brien tells the human story behind that crisis, focusing on the ordinary mothers who organized around their kitchen tables to save their families and escape their own homes. In the span of just two years, they went from being ignored by local officials to having the ear of the EPA, the White House, and even President Jimmy Carter himself. And along the way, their efforts would capture the American imagination and help spark the modern environmental movement.
– Jonathan Harr, author of the #1 national bestseller A Civil Action
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Everyone has heard of Amelia Earhart. But at the time that Earhart was flying, other women were flying with her. Each of them was brave. Each of them was bold, and some of them were arguably more talented in a cockpit than Earhart. In Fly Girls, Keith O’Brien tells this story—the story of Amelia Earhart and her friends, a radical band of female pilots who fought for the right to fly and race planes in the 1920s and ‘30s, and then beat the men in 1936 one of the most famous air races of them all. Publisher’s Weekly calls Fly Girls “fast-paced, meticulously researched history.” USA Today calls it “exhilarating” and “cinematic.” And the New York Times says that “O’Brien’s prose reverberates with fiery crashes, then stings with the tragedy of lives lost in the cockpit and sometimes, equally heartbreaking, on the ground.”
“It’s probably the most entertaining book I’ve looked at this year, a slice of Americana that gives us a sideways glimpse into what life was like in the 1920s and ’30s, when aviation was a popular spectator sport… ‘Fly Girls’ is feminist history of the best kind.”
– Barry Gewen, editor at The New York Times Book Review
Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
A New York Times Editor’s Choice Book
In Outside Shot, Keith O’Brien chronicled one year in Kentucky high school basketball with all access to one of the state’s rural powerhouse teams: the Scott County Cardinals. For eight months, he lived at the school, rode the team bus, attended practice, sat on the bench, and gathered hundreds of hours of interviews and dialogue. He then spun it all into a riveting narrative about one town, one season, and one dream—the quest to be a basketball star, in the place where that matters most: Kentucky.
– The New York Times
